Agriculture committee  Well, I know it's not going in the right direction right now. We always joke that a farmer's winter hobby is getting a high hoe and plowing wetlands, because they have to farm every square inch. Land is incredibly expensive. They have to get every dollar out of every acre. A lot of times, that comes at the expense of headlands.

Agriculture committee  I can take it. Yes, in Alberta we've actually done quite a bit of work—not me, personally, but I know there are a few people in Calgary who have. I think Ron Miksha is doing a lot of work on native pollinators. There's quite a bit going on in Alberta. I can get quite a bit of information on native pollinators.

Agriculture committee  I'll go back to the tech teams. I'm very proud of the work that our tech team has done this year. That's one of the main recommendations I would like to see. Lots of the provinces' tech teams are jumping from year to year and struggling to keep the funding going, but the extensions and projects they're doing are critical to our industry.

Agriculture committee  I'll take that one. It goes back to my comment about the ineffectiveness of the CFIA, as it stands right now, in not having a bee expert in house, not willing to meet with industry and not communicating what is going on. We just recently got a reply that they would not communicate with us because of the lawsuit.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  No, and I have no faith that it will get done before this lawsuit goes through—zero.

Agriculture committee  My name is Jeremy Olthof, and I am the past-president of the Alberta Beekeepers Commission. The commission submitted a brief providing information in regard to how honeybees benefit the environment, as well as the challenges faced by the commercial industry regarding honeybee health decline and bee mortality.